The Model Railroader S Guide To Logging Railroads

This highly illustrated book explains the business of logging railroads and provides examples of prototype operations. Photos of locomotives, equipment, and structures set the stage for modeling logging scenes and designing a logging layout.

The newest book in the popular series, Industries Along the Tracks 4, features six important industries that were served by rail. In addition to a thorough description, you'll get modeling tips to help you incorporate the featured industries into your layout. Industries featured in Volume 4: * Coal gas plants * Salt mining * Brickyards * Quarries * Lumber * Waterfront operations

Jeff Wilson demonstrates how to model several rail-served industries with insights, photos, and guidelines. Includes an overview on coal customers, milk, paper, breweries, merchandise traffic, and iron ore.

Offers easy-to-follow techniques for installing sturdy trackwork, fitting the roadbed, laying track, and finishing with lineside details.

This book provides you with a handy reference as you choose a prototype to model or create a freelanced railroad. Tony Koester demonstrates how to model coal trains, company towns, coal customers, and more.

Introduces the essentials of HO with easy-to-understand text and illustrations that answer questions on track planning, scenery, buildings, wiring, and how to build an attractive starter layout. From Model Railroader magazine.

This book provides an entry point for any modeler interested in building a narrow gauge layout. Narrow gauge railroads remain popular among railfans and modelers due to the spectacular mountain scenery in which many operated. Although narrow gauge layouts have a passionate niche following, there are very few books on this subject. • The book is an overview of prototype narrow gauge railroading as well as available models. • This is a one-stop book for introducing modelers to the subject of narrow gauge railroading. • It explains why and where narrow gauge railroads were built, how they operated, what their equipment was like, and why they were abandoned.